Why won't firefox connect to the internet when IE will?

Mozilla stopped working about a week ago without my knowledge of any updates or anything like that. Internet Explorer still works fine and will connect but when I try to use Firefox it tells me 'unable to connect.' I have already removed Firefox and re-installed but that has not corrected the problem. I also spent some time looking through the settings of Firefox and things seem in order. Do you have any suggestions? I'm not sure why this happened but I can't take IE much longer (yeah your product is that good!). I am currently running windows 7.
Thanks,
Jonathan

There is a troubleshooting article with suggestions. Don't know whether you've tried these yet: [http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Firefox%20cannot%20load%20websites%20but%20other%20programs%20can Firefox cannot load websites but other programs can | Troubleshooting | Firefox Help].

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